In order to validate some swarm intelligence based models on a swarm of robot, does anybody kindly recommend small swarm mobile robots for us?
The underlying requirnments are
* They have communication capability to communicate each other; Each robot can communicate with central computer if any;
* Each team, a small mobile robot is extendable in the sense that some sensors can be added;
* Each robot can carry out fundamental mobility, such as obstacle avoidance, navigation, path planning, etc. (if possible, some of localization and SLAM capability are better, but not required );
Each robot has fundamental computation capability to run some algorithms;
* They are rechargeable or use low-cost battery;
* they are low cost.
If you have utilized some small mobile robots as a swarm of robots of experiments, please recommend to us.
Thanks!
If you have utilized some small mobile robots as a swarm of robots of experiemnts, please recommend to us.
Chaomin Luo
I'm gonna looking for (roughly) the same thing within some months and I lean towards using Turtlebots (third generation is out: https://www.turtlebot.com/ ) with some custom networking upon them. They are not so small, but they are definitely scalable, embedding a reasonable computing power. Above all they have a good support in ROS, Matlab and even Gazebo pre-configured models for preliminary simulations. You can build them on your own with a 3D printer + some relatively cheap hardware. Also, embedding a Jetson nano platform may be of interested in your specific aereas of interest.
Turtlebot is, IMHO, a choice which can offer some interesting activities for students while avoiding an excessive overhead for research activities (I'm awalys scared of ending up reinventing the wheel using custom solutions).
Dear Chaomin Luo
you can see this link
https://naturalrobotics.group.shef.ac.uk/robots.html
You can buy the cheapest one on the TAOBAO with all the keyword you input here.
I believe it must be the fast way to find your robotics.
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